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Hemingway
at his writing desk during his African safari |
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Hemingway
at his writing desk during his African safari |
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a true writer each book should be a new beginning where
he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.
He should always try for something that has never been
done or that others have tried and failed. Then
sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. Hemingway upon receiving the Nobel Prize in literature - 1954 |
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always try to write on the principal of the iceberg.
There is seven-eights of it under water for every part
that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it
only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that
doesn't show. Ernest Hemingway - 1958 |
Ernest Hemingway was born on 21st July 1899 in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. He was one of six children. His father, Dr Clarence Edmonds Hemingway was a fervent member of the First Congregational Church, his mother, Grace Hall, sang in the church choir.
At the age of 17 Hemingway published his first literary work. He died aged 61, of self-inflicted gun shot wounds. Hemingway was the greatest of writers.
Brief Timeline
28 Oct 1954 - Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was too ill to receive the award in Stockholm but held a party at Finca Vigia.
Mid 50's - Filming of the 'Old Man and the Sea' . Hemingway became involved in that project.
Sept 1956 to Jan 1957 - He was in Europe
May
1959, Hemingway set sail for Spain, a month after Fidel
Castro's troops entered Havana.
When he returned to Havana in early November he publicly
declared his support for the revolutionaries.
Spring of 1960 - He completed his memoirs of life in Paris in the early twenties called a 'Moveable Feast'.
July 1960 - Hemingway left Cuba for the last time. He was already showing signs of mental illness, his health had collapsed and he was forced more and more to rely on alcohol.
Aug 1960 - He went to Spain alone but was forced to cut short his trip and return to Idaho.
30th Nov 1960 - Hemingway was admitted to the Mayo Clinic for the first time. He stayed about a month. He was readmitted three months later and stayed another two months. He'd found his memory had gone and he couldn't write any more.
Sunday, 2 July 1961 - Hemingway killed himself on a log cabin in Ketcham, Idaho. He tripped the trigger of his double-barreled shotgun and was instantly killed.
Hemingway's Published Works
1923 Three Stories and Ten Poems (Short Stories) 1925 In Our Time (Short Stories) 1926 The Torrents of Spring (Novel) 1926 The Sun Also Rises (Novel) 1927 Men Without Women (Short Stories) 1929 A Farewell to Arms (Novel) 1930 The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (Short Stories) 1932 Death in the Afternoon (Novel) 1933 Winner take Nothing (Short Stories) 1935 Green Hills of Africa (Novel) 1937 To Have and Have Not (Novel) 1940 For Whom the Bell Tolls (Novel) 1942 Men at War (Edited Anthology) 1950 Across the River and into the Trees (Novel) 1952 The Old Man and the Sea (Novel) The below were published posthumously. 1962 The Wild Years (Compilation) 1964 A Moveable Feast (Novel) 1967 By-Lines (Journalism for the Toronto Star) 1970 Islands in the Stream (Novel) 1972 The Nick Adams Stories 1979 88 Poems 1981 Selected Letters |
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| 1917 high school graduation photo Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts |
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